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Monday, March 18, 2013

First to 50 (Fractions of Groups Game)

There's nothing like a parent-teacher conference to
inspire new deceptively educational games. That was the case with this activity.
My son's teacher mentioned that fractions of groups was on the lesson plan for
the final trimester and that it can often be a struggle for kids.

Here's the little game I cooked up to help my son master
this skill.

Not knowing how much he'd need to be challenged, I
created one card game with three levels of difficulty. (Click on the level or the cards below to download a 3-page PDF of each.)

Level 1 is the
easiest with a grid of squares, with the representative fraction of them filled
in.

Level 2
provides the same visual cues (a grid of squares) that Level 1 provides, but
the representative fraction of squares is NOT filled in.

Level 3 is the
most challenging. There are no visual cues to help players. They must think
through the problem in their heads.

How to Play

Playing is simple. Get some glass babbles (those
flattened marbles from the craft store floral department) to use as a
manipulative. One by one players take turns, turning over the cards in the deck (print 2-3
copies of the level of your choice or mix them together) and solve the problem.

If the player answers correctly, they get to take the number of babbles in the answer. Colored cards have high-number answers.

But, wait, there are some "Put Back" cards in
the deck!! If a player gets one of these cards, when they solve the problem, the
answer is the number of babbles they must return to the "draw" pile
of babbles. If they don't have enough, they just put back all that they have.

How to Win

The first player to get 50 babbles wins (or if you're
having tons of fun, play until 100 like my son and I did). Encourage players to
put their babbles in groups of ten to make counting them easier.

14 comments:

What AWESOME activities and ways to differentiate! Thank you so much. I just gave you the "SomeBUNNY loves your blog" shout out on my blog that is taking place through Christina Bainbridge's Linky Party. Thank you for always sharing with us!-JulieThe Techie Teacher

Every one of my printables is free. I don't do this to make money. It's a hobby that fills my cup and my son's brain. If others benefit, that's even better! I'm glad you found my blog. I hope you'll stop by often!

hey! I am a science highschool teacher turned homeschool mom on my little bitties and it is my joy and passion to teach and inspire my kids...and I have honestly never seen a site or a mom so wonderfully creative and in tune with her child's learning style and love of play! it is so beautiful! and thank you for sharing so much! I have downloaded countless things in the past couple days since happening upon your site!

This is an awesome game. I LOVE it. We play many that are similar, but I like that you have provided the cards at 3 levels. Thanks for sharing this. I will Pinterest it and will most definitely be making it.

I am homeschooling mom of 6 year old boy. He loves board games. Your ideas and games are amazing ( I am sure you hear this a lot). You are the inspiration for me to make my son' learning a fun ride. Thank a lot for sharing.

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The Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational blog was born out of one mom's desire to chronicle all the afterschool activities she is doing with her oldest son. Thanks to the Internet, when his sibling is school age and there's even LESS time to reinvent the wheel, she won't have to. (Aren't blogs wonderful?!?) Fortunately for you, she's sharing these ideas and activities with other parents who, like her, believe learning doesn't stop when the school day ends.